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"I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school."
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"Most every dental school has discount dental services."
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"A good place to start initially would be school plays."
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"Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota."
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"High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again."
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"I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school."
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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."
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"I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks."
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"I went to high school with Al Capone."
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"I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle."
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"I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork."
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"Our family life was certainly not intellectual."
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"My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I."
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"The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990."
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"When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco."
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"I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research."
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"I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington."
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"My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school."
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"My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking."
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"I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work."
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"While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students."
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